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“Think David Attenborough meets a snarky film critic. A delightful mix of wildlife passion and pop culture commentary!” apparently… 😉
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Really interesting questions raised about ethics, but these were the first people ever to have to ask those questions.
I saw it described as ‘competency porn’ and I understand why - it’s about professionals doing their job as well as you can in the circumstances.
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We always seem to have at least a trio, and at the moment it’s a provisional quartet.
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Only two? Very restrained for dunnocks!
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First cherry blossom too
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Also, Putin fits into Trump’s worldview - the powerful can take what they want and if the weak oppose them then anything that follows is the fault of the weak.
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Something important I think was missed. There was a huge assumption that everything experienced was interconnected. But there’s no actual reason to believe that. It’s understandable he felt that way but, standing back rationally, they are entirely separate. Trauma is the root of much of it.
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Also, last thing, but before any accusations of hypocrisy, this has been percolating in my head for two or three weeks. And I’ve waited and put all my initial anger away. Sadly what’s then left is quite depressing.
Anyway, morning, enjoy your week!
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What I’m not going to do is try join that private group and answer there. Because that way madness lies.
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Going back to the original spark of this, neither the individual concerned nor anybody else in that group have been in touch to ask someone who knows. And I’d happily give them the reasonable and detailed explanation if they did. Much as I would want to give my emotional response.
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I’m not sure there’s a solution short of that asteroid strike. But felt I wanted to get that off my chest.
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There’s also a similar point here about the removal of common decency. Of empathy. Social media seems to have ‘othered’ everything. And that criticism can apply across the political spectrum as I see plenty of liberals equally incapable of trying to understand the other side.
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It’s deeply concerning. Most important and serious stuff takes time. And I’m not just talking about land management, I’m talking about politics and economics and all the big weighty matters. But if nobody has the attention span to understand and to wait, where does that leave us?
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And this all put me in mind of an article I’d seen that argued this was the inevitable result of social media. The removal of all thought, consideration, reason, logic and decency, to be replaced by taking our initial emotional reaction and ramping it up to 11.
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At that point it’s hard not to conclude they didn’t really want to know why. They used extremely inflammatory language. They’d seen something and went from 0 to 100 without ever stopping and thinking. They didn’t do any research into the subject. They’ve no relevant qualifications or experience.
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If I wanted to know why something had happened, I’d ask the people who did it. That strikes me as something that might yield results. If that didn’t work I’d maybe go more public. But this person just went to a private group that had no relevant knowledge.
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So this individual had quite the rant and, within this rant, said something along the lines of “I’d love to know why they have done this”. They had posted this on a locked and private social media group.
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Problem is that applies to everything these days. There’s nowhere you can go to escape it unless you fully switch off the internet. Social media has encouraged people to vent their thoughts immediately with no consideration and in the most dramatic fashion.
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If JD believes in free speech he should go tell his boss what he really thinks of him. “America’s Hitler” was the quote before the cheque cleared.
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Four. Three. Three.
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Chief Librarian Pugwash
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I should say I picked this up from @stephenmossauthor.bsky.social book Ten Birds That Changed the World, my current bedtime reading. And tagging him risks this is where he tells me he mentioned it in his 2021 talk for the puffin festival and I’ve forgotten it!
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This would have been great for the 2019 Yorkshire Puffin Festival at Flamborough as we could have acknowledged the 150th anniversary of such a landmark bill. I don’t remember hearing about it anywhere else at the time.
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I was out after the first trailer
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We’ve just binged the first series in about four days.
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Medical science in all its glory